The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (190721).VOLUME XVII. Later National Literature, Part II.

XXIII. Education.

§ 40. Education for Girls.

As The Journal of Education said, during this period the problem of female education was unspeakably important. In the successful agitation of that subject America made one of her great contributions to education. Undoubtedly the prevalent view was that education renders females less contented with the lot assigned them by God and by the customs of society; that it tends to withdraw them from their appropriate domestic duties, and thus make them less happy and less useful.